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Wednesday, July 14, 1999 Thursday, July 15, 1999 Full Day Tutorial Sessions (9:00 am – 5:00 pm): Full Day Tutorial Sessions (9:00 am – 5:00 pm): W1 Windows NT/2000 Kernel Debugging & T1 Windows NT Internals Crash Dump Analysis NEW Jamie Hanranhan, Kernel Mode Systems Steven McDowell, NCR Corporation T2 Windows NT Security: Advanced Topics NEW W2 Windows NT and UNIX Integration: Phil Cox, Networking Technology Solutions Problems and Solutions NEW T3 Learning Perl NEW Phil Cox, Networking Technology Solutions Daniel Klein, Consultant Morning Tutorial Sessions (9:00 am – 12:30 pm) T4 Windows NT Performance Monitoring, W3AM DHCP/DNS Benchmarking and Tuning NEW Greg Kulosa, GNAC, Inc. Mark T. Edmead, Windows NT Consultant W4AM The COM(+) Programming Model Don Box, DevelopMentor Afternoon Tutorial Sessions (1:30 pm – 5:00 pm) W5PM Configuring and Administering Samba Servers NEW Gerald Carter, Auburn University W6PM DCOM for Systems Administrators NEW Nicholas Schriber, Collective Technologies Inc.
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Wednesday, July 14, 1999 Participants will walk away from this tutor- • User authentication ial with a thorough understanding of the tools • File serving Full Day Tutorial Sessions (9:00 am – 5:00 pm) available for debugging kernel mode code and • Printing diagnosing system failures. • Faxes and modems W1 Windows NT/2000 • Host-to-host connectivity Steven McDowell is a Senior • Remote administration Kernel Debugging and Crash Engineer at NCR Corporation, where Dump Analysis NEW • Backup & restore he focuses on Windows NT Inter- ■ Integration Steven McDowell, NCR Corporation nals and leads the development • Where can it happen? team working on remote clustering Who should attend: This tutorial is aimed • Why should it happen? at both Windows NT developers and those technologies. He has taught a num- • How should it happen? who support the operating system. Participants ber of classes on various technologies. Steven is a • What about security? should be familiar with the basic operation and co-author of the best-selling Universal Serial Bus Phil Cox is a consultant for Net- concepts of Windows NT and software devel- Explained from Prentice-Hall and has authored the working Technology Solutions and opment. Though no specific programming upcoming O’Reilly book Windows NT Kernel Debug- is a member of a government inci- knowledge is required, examples will be shown ging and Crash Dump Analysis. He works daily in both dent response team. Phil frequently in C. Background will be provided before delv- NT kernel mode development and with the tools he writes and lectures on issues bridg- ing into architectural or hardware-specific areas. describes in his tutorial. ing the gap between UNIX and Win- This course emphasizes the power and W2 Windows NT and UNIX dows NT. He is a featured columnist in the USENIX extensibility of the Microsoft Windows NT and Association publication ;login: and is on the LISA-NT Windows 2000 kernel debugging and crash Integration: Problems and program committee. dump analysis tools. It explains how to use Solutions NEW these indispensable utilities to solve real-world Phil Cox, Networking Technology Morning Tutorial Sessions (9:00 am – 12:30 pm) support and development problems. It focuses Solutions on the methods available to exploit the tools to Who should attend: System administra- W3AM DHCP/DNS quickly resolve and understand system failures. tors who are responsible for heterogeneous Greg Kulosa, GNAC, Inc. The Microsoft documentation is sparse, has Windows NT and UNIX based systems. holes, and only tells part of the story. This tuto- Who should attend: Anyone with two or Attendees should have user-level knowledge rial fills in those gaps and presents a coherent more networked Windows clients, who wants of both UNIX and Windows NT, and it is examination of exactly what is available, where to automatically distribute network information recommended they have system administration– to find it, and how to use it. to those clients. Attendees should have a basic level experience in at least one of the operating The topics examined in this tutorial knowledge of TCP/IP, typical network set-up, systems. include: and procedures for installing/working with ■ Kernel debugging concepts Today’s organizations choose computing their operating system. ■ Understanding the NT stop screen solutions from a variety of vendors. Often, inte- This course will cover the DHCP & DNS ■ In-depth examination of the available grating the solutions in a seamless, manageable protocols and how these protocols fit into a debugging and analysis tools enterprise is an afterthought, left up to the sys- typical network. Both UNIX and Windows NT ■ Using the kernel-mode extensions for basic tem administrators. This course identifies the servers for DHCP & DNS will be covered. and advanced debugging solutions to the problems encountered when We will mostly focus on Windows 95 and ■ Debugging at the hardware level administering a mixture of UNIX and Windows NT clients, although UNIX clients ■ Remote debugging and analysis Windows NT systems. It covers specific prob- are similar. ■ Understanding and working with the lem areas and discusses practical solutions for DHCP can be used to distribute IP address, various crash dump tools them. The focus of this course will be on avail- router, DNS, WINS and other information to ■ Extending the debugger and dump analysis able solutions to real-world administration network clients, without needing to visit each tools problems in heterogeneous UNIX and machine and manually configure it. DNS, the ■ System configuration practices to ease fail- Windows NT based networks which exist and Domain Name Service, is the system by which ure analysis can be applied today. Internet TCP/IP hosts lookup host addresses ■ Tips for writing debug-friendly code Topics covered: and network services. ■ ■ What’s new and different in debugging Overview of NT and UNIX The following topics will be included: • Basic homogeneous setups Windows 2000? ■ DHCP & DNS protocol in-depth ■ • Services offered and how they work Where does Microsoft hide the really good ■ Which server platform should be used? stuff? • Where they are similar UNIX or Windows NT? • Where they are different • Potential sticking points ■ Areas of interest • Electronic mail • Web servers
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■ Which DHCP/DNS server to run? Should Don Box is a cofounder of Devel- Gerald Carter has been a mem- you use a commercial solution or will free- opMentor, an education firm that ber of the SAMBA Team since 1998. ware do the job? focuses on distributed object tech- However, he has been maintaining ■ Daily maintenance of DHCP & DNS nology. He is the author of Essential Samba servers for the past four servers COM and a co-author of Effective years. Currently employed as a net- ■ How to integrate DHCP information into COM, both from Addison Wesley. work manager by the College of DNS (and do you really need to?) He is also a contributing editor to Microsoft Interac- Engineering at Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Gerald ■ Debugging problems when they occur tive Developer as well as Microsoft Systems Journal, daily maintains approximately 600 PCs running a ■ Useful reference materials where he writes the bi-monthly COM column. melting pot of Microsoft operating systems and 30 Solaris 2.x servers running Samba. He recently was Greg Kulosa has been a UNIX Afternoon Tutorial Sessions (1:30 pm – 5:00 pm) Systems Administrator for over 7 the lead author of Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours years. He is currently a senior con- from Sams Publishing and writes a monthly column W5PM Configuring and for the Web based magazine LinuxWorld on Linux sultant, solving a myriad of host and Administering Samba Servers NEW networking problems. He has rolled and Windows NT integration. Gerald Carter, Auburn University out DHCP to networks of from 2 to 1500 machines (Windows NT/95, Linux, Solaris 2.6 Who should attend: This tutorial is W6PM DCOM for Systems client machines) as well as done more DNS BIND intended for systems and network administra- Administrators NEW installs and written more zone files than he cares to tors who wish to integrate Samba running on a Nicholas Schriber, Collective remember. UNIX based machine with Microsoft Windows Technologies Inc. clients. The attendees need not be UNIX experts as long as they are comfortable with Who should attend: Systems W4AM The COM(+) Programming administrators or project managers who want Model editing systems configuration files and common tasks such as using the ps and kill commands. the information to address “their side” of the Don Box, DevelopMentor DCOM equation, and software developers who Samba is a freely available suite of programs are new to the COM/DCOM world who Who should attend: Developers and archi- that allows UNIX based machines to provide desire an overview. This course will be of par- tects involved in the design and implementa- file and print services to Microsoft Windows tion of component-based applications. An ticular importance to support personnel work- PCs without installing any third-party software ing in a development environment who would understanding of either Java or C++ is expected on the clients. This allows users to access neces- in order to grasp the code fragments, but read- like to better understand their own role in sary resources from both PC and UNIX work- making client-server work. No programming only language skills should be adequate. This stations. As Samba makes its way into more tutorial is geared at presenting the core seman- experience is assumed; all examples will be con- and more network shops all over the world, it is ceptual, with no code involved. tics of the programming model and providing common to see “configuring Samba servers” attendees with a view into the current state listed as a desired skill on many job descriptions Object-oriented programming is ubiqui- of COM(+). for network administrators. tous, but specifications such as Microsoft’s This tutorial focuses on the semantics This tutorial will use real-world examples Component Object Model and Distributed of COM(+) and covers the core abstractions taken from daily administration tasks to show COM are essential for it to fulfill its potential. used to design and implement COM(+) you how to: Client-server computing needs a robust com- munication infrastructure so that middleware applications. ■ Install Samba from the ground up can make a heterogeneous environment appear Topics covered include: ■ Configure a UNIX box to provide remote as a single system. What does a systems admin- ■ Interface-based programming, COM-style access to local files and printers from istrator need to know about COM and DCOM ■ COM(+) class loading and component Microsoft Windows clients to coordinate with software developers in mak- configuration ■ Configure Samba as a member of a ing this happen optimally? This course lays the ■ Context and interception Windows NT domain in order to utilize the groundwork and provides real techniques for ■ Remoting architecture domain’s PDC for user authentication addressing this question. ■ Transactional programming ■ Use Samba as a domain controller This presentation includes: ■ Asynchronous programming ■ Configure Samba to participate in network ■ browsing A brief history of technologies leading up to Sifting through the mounds of detail DCOM (such as RPC, OLE, etc.) with ■ Automate the daily tasks of managing involved in actual COM(+) development can technical details (and limitations) of each Samba be daunting. This tutorial is intended to be a ■ Where DCOM fits in relation to CORBA, roadmap to help attendees focus on the core and where each is appropriate abstractions that will most influence their ■ An overview of essential structured designs. programming concepts which COM and DCOM address
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■ A drill-down into the DCOM architecture Jamie Hanrahan provides Win- ■ The Security Configuration Manager ■ DCOM security and management tools dows NT driver development, con- • Default configurations This course will also include live demos of sulting, and training services to • Defining specialized templates leading companies. He is co-writing some of the COM management tools, as well as Phil Cox is a consultant for Net- a book on Windows NT device dri- working inside the registry. We will also exam- working Technology Solutions and vers, to be published by O’Reilly and ine some of the COM-oriented security and is a member of a government inci- Associates. He also has an extensive background in interoperability tools. We will examine dent response team. Phil frequently Microsoft-supplied and public-domain tools, as VMS device drivers and internals. He is co-author of writes and lectures on issues bridg- well as touching upon third-party tools where VMS Advanced Driver Techniques and received the ing the gap between UNIX and Win- appropriate. Instructor of the Year award for teaching VMS device Phil Cox dows NT. He is a featured columnist drivers and internals courses for Digital Equipment Nicholas Schriber is a senior consultant at Collec- in the USENIX Association publication ;login: and is Corporation. tive Technologies, Inc., which is a Microsoft strategic on the LISA-NT program committee. partner and a national source of client-server support Windows NT Security: T2 Learning Perl solutions. He has worked for 13 years in PC network- Advanced Topics NEW T3 NEW ing, of which ten were in direct support of software Daniel Klein, Consultant developers. His certifications include MCSE, 3Wizard, Phil Cox, Networking Technology Who should attend: Programmers with and Project Management Professional (PMI). He col- Solutions previous experience either in a structured pro- laborates on the monthly Q&A column “Ask the Who should attend: Programmers, network gramming language, like C, C++, Pascal, Answerdesk” in NT Systems Magazine. and systems administrators, and individuals Python, or Java, or else in a scripting language who want a better understanding of securing like the Bourne shell, Javascript, or Tcl. While Thursday, July 15, 1999 Windows NT, and anyone interested in Win- some previous exposure to Perl is beneficial, it’s dows NT network protocols, details on what not essential. Full Day Tutorial Sessions (9:00 am – 5:00 pm) registry settings actually do, and other advanced topics. An intermediate knowledge of Windows Designed to be programmer-friendly and Windows NT Internals NT security will be assumed. Experience in platform-neutral, Perl is a high-level, general- T1 purpose programming language that makes easy Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Systems securing Windows NT and in dealing with net- work security is a prerequisite for this course. things easy and hard things possible. Now mov- Who should attend: This tutorial is aimed ing into its second decade, Perl has become the Many security-related issues of Windows at operating system developers, applications language of choice across all platforms for NT require more than a basic understanding of programmers, and system administrators who programmers engaged in rapid prototyping, sys- Windows NT security exposures and potential need to understand the internal behavior and tem utilities, software tools, system management control measures. This course is designed for architecture of Windows NT. (Note: The infor- tasks, database access, and graphical and Web system and network administrators and system mation presented is valid for both NT Versions programming. Perl programming is an essential programmers who are already technically profi- 4 and 5.) skill for any system administrator or Web pro- cient with Windows NT security and want to grammer, and an important one for nearly Windows NT is built on a new operating learn more about advanced features. everyone else. system code base, similar in many ways to well- Topics include: Because Perl incorporates aspects of more established OSes such as UNIX and VMS, and ■ Details of Windows NT related to security than a dozen well-known tools, experienced very different from Microsoft’s DOS, Win16, and their security implications UNIX programmers and administrators can and Windows 9x platforms. This course will • The internal functionality of come up to speed on Perl very rapidly. How- describe the behavior of Windows NT from Windows NT ever, because Perl is portable to all major plat- system architecture point of view. Using a vari- • Windows networking: SMB forms (including Windows), programmers and ety of tools, we will explore internal interfaces and NetBIOS administrators everywhere will benefit from this and the behavior of the system, show how NT ■ Tradeoffs in designing and implementing high-powered tool. implements fundamental operating system suitable solutions to NT’s flaws Topics in this full-day class include: functions such as scheduling and memory man- ■ Practical exercises in defending NT with ■ Getting started with Perl, command-line agement, and show how NT’s architecture a firewall switches affects some of its functionality. ■ Dealing with Windows NT authentication ■ Debugging, common beginner “gotchas” Topics covered include: • Passthrough authentication ■ Control flow structures, such as loops and ■ General system architecture • Derivation and protection of conditionals ■ Providing operating system functions to password hashes ■ Strings and numbers user mode ■ Securing the Windows registry ■ Detailed description of basic data types ■ Thread scheduling • Advanced techniques (scalar, array, and hash variables) ■ Memory management internals • Tradeoffs and pitfalls in each ■ Using and interpreting performance mea- registry change surement tools
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■ Working with files and directories T4 Windows NT Performance ■ Solving performance problems ■ Binary I/O, formatted data, records Monitoring, Benchmarking and • Why they occur ■ Nested and multidimensional data Tuning NEW • How to fix them structures Mark T. Edmead, Windows NT ■ System settings ■ References Consultant • Optimal workstation or server ■ Detailed work on Perl regular expressions performance for pattern matching and substitution Who should attend: Users and adminis- • Registry settings ■ Writing user-defined functions trators who want detailed information about • Performance tradeoffs ■ Scoping issues how to get the best performance out of their ■ System resources (CPU, memory, disk, ■ Signal handling Windows NT workstation and server. and network) ■ A light overview of packages, libraries, This course begins by providing an overview • Analyzing performance modules, and object-oriented programming of the NT system from an internals point of • Solving bottleneck problems in Perl view. Differences between the workstation and Mark Edmead has over 20 years Daniel Klein has been program- the server product will be covered and there of experience in software product ming exclusively in Perl for the past will be further discussion of performance. The development, system design, and computer will be divided into various resource 4 years. He has been scripting, project management. Mark has components and each one of these will be cov- teaching, and doing a large volume been involved in the planning, ered in detail to gain a clear understanding of of Web-based consulting, all in Perl. training, and installation of Win- their interrelationship. His experience covers a broad dows NT servers and workstations. This includes Course topics will cover: range of disciplines, including real-time process con- domain planning, Network security, capacity plan- ■ Performance monitoring and data gathering trol, compilers and interpreters, medical diagnostic tools ning, and DHCP, WINS, and RAS configurations, as systems, system security and administration, Web- • Windows NT performance: automati- well as delivery of custom in-house training seminars related systems and servers, graphical user interface cally gathering system resource data for on topics including Windows NT administration and management systems, the internals of almost every further analysis optimization, and NT security. Mark is the co-author UNIX kernel released in the past 22 years, and a ■ System components of Windows NT: Performance, Monitoring and Tuning, racetrack betting system. published by MacMillan.
Windows NT Symposium Advanced Research Workshop W ednesday, July 14, 1999 Co-Chairs: Todd Needham, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation & Werner Vogels, Cornell University
Following the symposium, a one-day workshop will be How to Participate held to bring together researchers in intensive sessions to Researchers interested in participating are requested to share research results, examine cutting-edge performance submit an extended abstract describing the work they achievements, discuss problems and new research would like to present at the workshop. The abstract directions, all specific to Windows NT. To ensure effective should be no longer than 1200 words and be submitted interaction, the workshop is limited to 30–40 participants to [email protected]. The deadline for and attendance will be by invitation only. submission is June 14, 1999.
For additional details, please see http://www.usenix.org /events/usenix-nt99/advanced.html
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10:00 am – 11:30 am Real Time and Not Session Chair: Susan Owicki, InterTrust Technologies Corporation CPU Reservations and Time Constraints: Implementation Experience on Windows NT Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation; and John Regehr, University of Virginia Hard Real-time with RTX on Windows NT Mike Cherepov and Chris Jones, VentureCom, Inc. Higher-Order Concurrent Win32 Programming Riccardo Pucella, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Symposium Luncheon
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Indirection Session Chair: Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation FIFS: A Framework for Implementing User-Mode File Systems in Windows NT Danilo Almeida, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Detours: Binary Interception of Win32 Functions Galen Hunt and Doug Brubacher, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation Evaluating Windows NT TSE Performance Alexander Ya-li Wong and Margo Seltzer, Harvard University
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Internet Session Chair: Karin Petersen, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center A Case for a New CIFS Benchmark Swami Ramany, Network Appliance, Inc. HACC: An Architecture for Cluster-Based Web Servers Xiaolan Zhang, Michael Barrientos, J. Bradley Chen, and Margo Seltzer, Harvard University A Technique for Reducing Startup Latency in Mobile and Desktop Applications Dennis Lee, Jean-Loup Baer, Brian Bershad, and Tom Anderson, University of Washington
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm NT Futures George Spix, Chief Architect, Consumer Platforms Division, Microsoft Corporation, and Filipe Cabrera, Windows 2000 Storage Architect, Microsoft Corporation In this session two of the most influential architects of Windows 2000 will talk about issues such as 64-bit, SMP, and cluster scaleup issues, the improved manageability of the data center product, and other inter- esting future developments. The session has a very informal nature with lots of room for discussion with the symposium participants.
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Reception at Jillian’s Sponsored by Microsoft (Tutorial & LISA-NT attendees welcome too) WIN-NT
TO R EGISTER, USE THE FORM ON PAGE 11 Windows NTConference System Administration of LISA-NT—2nd LargeInstallation :0p :0p Conference/Exhibition Reception 5:30 pm–7:00 4:00 pm–5:30 Break 3:30 pm–4:00 2:00 pm–3:30 Lunch(onyourown) 12:30 pm–2:00 11:00 am–12:30pm Break 10:30 am–11:00 9:00 am–10:30 Friday, July16, 1999 12 R GSE AL O UOIL N E ORFRTCHOICE FIRST YOUR GET AND TUTORIALS FOR EARLY EGISTER LISA-NT Anyone Welcome toAttend Kenneth May, Radio Dial-inConnectivitytoNT Networks Gerald Carter, Administering aWindowsNTDomain UsingaNon–WindowsNTPrimaryDomainController Alan Epps,Dr. GlennBailey, andDouglasGlatz, NFS andSMBDataSharingWithinaHeterogeneousEnvironment: ARealWorld Study Session Chair:IanAlderman, Non-Traditional Solutions MatthewOlguin, Session Chair: William Gloyeske, ReportfromtheWindows2000BetaTeamTales fromtheFront—A Martin Sjolin, State-Driven SoftwareInstallationforWindowsNT Dave Roth, A NetworkMachineManagementSystem Michail Gomberg,CraigStacey, andJanetSayrem, Scalable, RemoteAdministrationofWindowsNT Session Chair:AeleenFrisch, Large InstallationManagement David Rodgers compensate forNT’s weaknessesinareassuchasscalability, availability, andmanageability. Windows NTcansupplyflexibility, distributedcomputing,andWeb capabilities,whilelegacysystemscan Rather thanreplacelegacyplatformswithWindowsNT, organizationsshouldcombinethetwoplatforms. David P. Rodgers,Vice President,NTProgramOffice, More ThantheSumofParts:CombiningWindowsNTandLegacyPlatforms Opening Remarks,Awards, andKeynoteAddress hardware for mission-critical distributed transaction processing applications. Previously Vice President of President Vice Previously applications. processing transaction distributed mission-critical for hardware Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Corporate Architecture at Sequent, he was also responsible for developing their Balance and Symmetry and Balance their developing for responsible also was he Sequent, at Architecture Corporate multiprocessor systems and the Dynix OS. During his ten-year stay at Digital Equipment Corporation, Equipment Digital at stay ten-year his During OS. Dynix the and systems multiprocessor Rodgers headed the CPU development team on the VAX-11/780 super-minicomputer at Digital and was was and Digital at super-minicomputer VAX-11/780 the on team development CPU the headed Rodgers one of the architects of the Digital VAX computer family. computer VAX Digital the of architects the of one Roth Consulting Roth Warburg Dillon Read Dillon Warburg IBM Global Services Global IBM Auburn University Auburn currently oversees Compaq’s effort to accelerate the adoption of Windows NT on Compaq on NT Windows of adoption the accelerate to effort Compaq’s oversees currently Team Manager for the Windows 2000 Beta Team, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Team, Beta 2000 Windows the for Manager Team Cornell University Cornell Exponential Consulting Exponential SEMATECH Tektronix, Inc. Tektronix, Friday–Saturday, July Argonne National Laboratory National Argonne Compaq Computer Corporation Computer Compaq ‒ , LISA-NT Technical Sessions Friday–Saturday, July ‒,
Saturday, July 17, 1999
9:00 am – 10:30 am Inside the Microsoft Network (MSN) Chris Pinto, Director of Information Technology Group for MSN, Microsoft Corporation Session Chair: Ralph Loura, Cisco Systems, Inc.
10:30 am – 11:00 am Break
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Windows NT Management Scenarios Session Chair: John Holmwood, TransCanada Pipeline Ltd. NT Security in an Open Academic Environment Matthew Campbell, Andrea Chan, Robert Cowles, Gregg Daly, Ernest Denys, Patrick Hancox, William Johnson, David Leung, and Jeff Lwin, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Deployment of Microsoft Windows NT in a Design Engineering Environment Jason Sampson, Elwood Coslett, Bob Paauwe, Russ Craft, Gary Washington, and Kevin Wheeler, Intel Corporation NT Security Monitoring Using SNMP Richard Reybok, Lehman Brothers, Inc.
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Conference Luncheon
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Invited Talks: Securing Windows NT Network Services Session Chair: Phil Cox, Computer Incident Advisory Capability
Securing Windows NT Services David LeBlanc, Microsoft Corporation Windows NT installs certain services by default, and others can be added either manually or as part of an application. The question then becomes “What happens when I turn a particular service off?” and “How does a particular service affect the network security of my machine?” This talk will help you to: ■ Understand the services running on your machine ■ Learn the security implications of each service. ■ Understand how to write a secure service. ■ Learn information on how to judge the security of a service from a vendor. NT in the Firewall Environment Elizabeth Zwicky, Great Circle Associates As NT becomes a more and more important server platform, an increasing number of people need to run it in a firewall environment; people have NT bastion hosts, firewalls between cooperating NT machines, and NT firewalls. Unfortunately, solid information about NT in this environment is hard to come by, with both pro- and anti-NT camps producing more emotion than data about services, port numbers, and risks. This talk will attempt to provide some actual information about NT and firewalls.
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Works-in-Progress Session Chair: Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh Do you have interesting work you would like to share, or a cool idea that is not yet ready to be published? The USENIX audience provides valuable discussion and feedback. Short, pithy, and fun, Works-in-Progress Reports (WIPs) introduce interesting new or ongoing work. We are particularly interested in presentation of student work. Prospective speakers should send a short one- or two-paragraph report to lisant99wips @usenix.org. LISA-NT
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3rd USENIX Windows NT LISA-NT—2nd Large Symposium Installation System Symposium Co-Chairs Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, Administration of Microsoft Corporation Windows NT Conference Werner Vogels, Cornell University Sam Leffler, VMware, Inc. Stephen Walli, Softway Systems, Inc. Conference Co-Chairs Richard Oehler, IBM T.J. Watson Symposium Steering Committee Research Center Gerald Carter, Auburn University Ralph Loura, Cisco Systems, Inc. Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, Susan Owicki, InterTrust Technologies Microsoft Corporation Corporation Program Committee Karin Petersen, Xerox Palo Alto Andrew Hume, Bell Laboratories Ian Alderman, Cornell University Research Center Thorsten von Eicken, Cornell University Jeremy Allison, Silicon Graphics Inc. David Steere, Oregon Graduate Institute Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh Program Committee Ramu Sunkara, Oracle Corporation Phil Cox, Computer Incident Advisory Rumi Zahir, Intel Corporation Brian Bershad, University of Washington Capability Myron Zimmerman, VenturCom, Inc. Gary Campbell, Compaq Computer Alan Epps, Tektronix, Inc. Corporation Aeleen Frisch, Exponential Consulting Advanced Workshop Committee Andrew Chien, University of California, John Holmwood, TransCanada San Diego Todd Needham, Microsoft Research, Pipeline Ltd. Thorsten von Eicken, Cornell University Microsoft Corporation Matthew Olguin, SEMATECH Jim Gray, Microsoft Research, Werner Vogels, Cornell University Andrew Rieger, Lehman Brothers, Inc. Microsoft Corporation Martin Sjoelin, Warburg Dillon Read
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Conference Proceedings Social Activities LISA-NT—2nd Large Installation System One copy of the proceedings is included Meet the speakers and connect with your Administration of Windows NT Conference peers in the community. with your Technical Sessions registration Tuesday, July 13, 1999 fee. To order additional copies, contact the 3rd USENIX Windows NT Symposium 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Reception at Jillian’s USENIX Association at 1.510.528.8649, Sponsored by Microsoft Sunday, July 11, 1999 or send email to [email protected] 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Welcome Reception Thursday, July 15, 1999 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Birds-of-a-Feather Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs) Monday, July 12, 1999 Sessions 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm Poster Session, Demos, Monday, Thursday, and Friday evenings and Reception Friday, July 16, 1999 (see p. 10) 12:00 noon – 7:00 pm Windows NT ’99 Do you have a topic that you’d like to dis- Exhibition cuss with others? Our Birds-of-a-Feather 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Conference/Exhibition sessions may be perfect for you. BoFs are Reception Tuesday, July 13, 1999 very interactive and informal gatherings 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Birds-of-a-Feather 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Symposium Luncheon for attendees interested in a particular Sessions 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Reception at Jillian’s topic. Schedule your BoF in advance by Sponsored by Microsoft Saturday, July 17, 1999 telephoning the USENIX Conference 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Conference Luncheon Thursday, July 15, 1999 Office at 1.949.588.8649, or email to 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Birds-of-a-Feather [email protected] Sessions BoFs may also be scheduled on-site and Friday, July 16, 1999 will be announced at the conference. 12:00 noon – 7:00 pm Windows NT ’99 Exhibition 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Conference/Exhibition Reception
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3rd USENIX Windows NT Symposium Windows NT Tutorial Program Early Registration & Hotel Discount Technical Sessions Fees (July ‒, ) Tutorial Fees (July ‒, ) Deadline: Technical Sessions registration fee includes: Tutorial registration fees include: ■ Admission to the WIN-NT Technical Sessions ■ Admission to the tutorial (s) you select June 18, 1999 ■ Copy of Symposium Proceedings ■ Printed and bound tutorial materials for selected ■ Admission to WIN-NT Symposium activities (p. 16) session(s) ■ Admission to the Exhibition ■ Lunch Early registration fee (until June 18, 1999) ■ Admission to the Exhibition - Member* $360 Early registration fee (until June 18, 1999) Non-member or Tutorial Program for one day $395 If attending both Tech- Renewing Member** $440 CEU credit (optional) $ 15 nical Sessions, pay the Full-time student $ 75 Tutorial Program for two days $690 non-member fee for the (Must provide copy of current student I.D. Card) CEU credit (optional) $ 30 Windows-NT Sympos- After June 18, add $50 to the Technical Sessions fee. After June 18, add $50 to the tutorial fee. ium and check the membership box on the * The member fee applies to current members of USENIX, registration form. Then EurOpen National Groups, JUS, AUUG, and SAGE-AU. LISA-NT—2nd Large Installation pay member fee for the ** Non-Members: Join USENIX or renew your membership at no System Administration of Windows NT LISA-NT Conference. additional charge. Pay the non-member technical sessions fee and Conference You save on the second check the USENIX membership box on the registration form to renew your existing membership or receive a one-year individual registration and become Technical Sessions Fees (July ‒, ) association membership. an USENIX member. Technical Sessions registration fee includes: WIN-NT Symposium Usage Abstract ■ Admission to the LISA-NT Technical Sessions ■ Copy of Conference Proceedings Pay an additional $30 All registrants are required to provide a usage abstract ■ Admission to LISA-NT Conference activities to join SAGE. (400 words maximum) briefly describing their involve- (p. 16) ment with research on Windows NT. The usage abstracts ■ Admission to the Exhibition will be made available to all attendees so that like-minded researchers can find each other. We will also use this feed- Early registration fee (until June 18, 1999) Payment back to help our invited speakers fine-tune their talks to Member* $360 Payment by check or address current and popular issues. To submit an abstract, Non-member or credit card MUST accom- fill out the abstracts Web form. http://www.usenix.org/ Renewing Member** $440 pany the registration form. events/usenix-nt/registration/abstract.html Full-time student $ 75 Purchase orders, vouchers, (Must provide copy of current student I.D. Card) and telephone reservations After June 18, add $50 to the Technical Sessions fee. cannot be accepted. REFUND/CANCELLATION POLICY * The member fee applies to current members of USENIX, If you must cancel, all refund requests must be in EurOpen National Groups, JUS, AUUG, and SAGE-AU. writing and postmarked no later than July 2, 1999. ** Non-Members: Join USENIX or renew your membership at no Telephone/ email cancellations cannot be accepted. additional charge. Pay the non-member technical sessions fee and You may substitute another in your place. Contact the check the USENIX membership box on the registration form and Conference Office for details. your existing membership will be renewed or you will receive a new one-year individual association membership.
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18 R EGISTER EARLY FOR TUTORIALS AND GET YOUR FIRST CHOICE Copy this form as needed. Type or print clearly. Registration Form 3rd Windows NT Symposium / 2nd LISA-NT Conference, July 12–17, 1999 The address you provide will be used for all future USENIX mailings unless Tutorial Program you notify us in writing. Wednesday, July 14, 1999 Select a full-day tutorial or one AM and one PM tuto- rial per day. Sorry, no partial or split-day registration allowed. Name First Last Full Day Session (9:00 am – 5:00 pm) Morning Session (9:00 am – 12:30 pm) ❏ W1 Windows NT/2000 Kernel ❏ W3am DHCP/DNS Debugging & Crash Dump ❏ W4am The COM(+) Programming Model First Name for Badge Member Number Analysis Afternoon Session (1:30 pm – 5:00 pm) ❏ W2 Windows NT and UNIX ❏ W5pm Configuring & Administering Integration: Samba Services Company / Institution Problems and Solutions ❏ W6pm DCOM for Systems Administrators
Mail Stop Mail Address Thursday, July 15, 1999 Select one full-day tutorial. Full Day Session (9:00 am – 5:00 pm) ❏ T1 Windows NT Internals ❏ T3 Learning Perl ❏ T2 Windows NT Security: ❏ T4 Windows NT Performance Monitoring, Advanced Topics Benchmarking and Tuning
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